Kalin Nenov
Like so many of McKillip's books, this one is about magic. How you make magic out of power, and how you make magic out of emptiness, and out of loneliness, and out of love. And how you make love out of magic.
How indeed:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34954#p34954
Originally posted at choveshkata.net.
Необичаен и разнообразен сборник. Това, което обединява разказите и етюдите вътре, е нестандартният ум на автора. А това, заради което наистина го харесах, беше стаената топлина. (Щото само ум без сърце, нали...)
Най-ярките ми впечатления:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34944#p34944
Originally posted at choveshkata.net.
Философски роман за ортодоксалното християнство и хората, които не го разбират. Има и щипчица за джендърите.
Ако обичате да спорите, сигурно ще го обикнете.
Моята читателска еволюция течеше наобратно:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34928#p34928
Originally posted at choveshkata.net.
Пътните ми бележки са тук:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34921#p34921
Originally posted at choveshkata.net.
Една от най-плътните научнопопулярни еклектики (открадвам дефиницията на редакторката Лора Бранева), на които съм попадал. Препоръчвам да се поема по максимум десетина страници на ден. ;)
За да не ми накърти, се фокусирах върху по-забавните моменти. Цитирал съм най-разсмелите ме тук и надолу:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34867#p34867
Originally posted at choveshkata.net.
Неочаквано забавна приказка, в която темите за възрастни са поднесени като за деца:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34793#p34793
... и надолу. ><
А накрая се появява... ахаха... ще видите!
(Но ми се щеше и картинките да са повече като за деца...)
Съпровождащата музика е божественярска:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34792#p34792
Споменавал ли съм колко смайващо е, когато цяла една история се излее пред нас в рими? И то не насилени, а свежи и разчупени? (Тук многознайкото мърмори нещо за „анжамбмани“. :D)
Последните няколко повести на Светлинките са все такива – в рими, свежи и разчупени. И (напрягам памет) сякаш дълбаят във все по-тежки теми, нищо че участниците им са все тъй млади. Специално тук някои от темите са наистина тежки. Но понеже Светлинките си имат име за защитаване, светлината накрая е гарантирана.
А ето проблясъците, които най впечатлиха мен:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1075
Влади е приятелят, който пръв ме запозна с някои методи на вече покойния Алексей Бъчев. Ако сте ме чували да ви разказвам за обсесивния човек, който се научил да си вкарва щепсела на ютията в носа – Алексей е виновен! :D
Но за да достигне тази книга-концентрат до мен, е виновен Влади. Виждам го как просто се разтърсва от вина...
А петте звездички ги раздадох малко по ентусиастки. Дали книгата ще ги заслужи – дали ще ми промени живота... от мен зависи. Колко ще помня да я препрочитам, но най-вече – да я ползвам.
Ето фокусите ѝ:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34680#p34680
Somebody called this book a tragedy. I don't believe Zindell has ever written or could ever write one. My feeling, very fresh after having just finished it (and a little dull, after a terrible team meltdown and only a few hours of tortured sleep), is that The Remembrancer's Tale is a bridge: a stepping stone to the culmination of the whole Requiem for Homo Sapiens. The only tragedy I can see is if we never get to read that culmination; I for one would definitely like to spend more time with Danlo's children and the rest of this dazzling new offshoot of humanity. (I think I'd like to spend more time with children as a whole.)
Does the love story that drives the overall one work? Better question: does it inspire? I ... don't know. Not yet anyway. Time will yield a better-rounded answer. For now: I wish Rane and Maria had spent more time interacting; I wish I had come to know Maria better. (But perhaps that is the point of If I Am God, not of this novel.) One thing's for sure: Thomas Rane is very different from all the other main characters in Zindell's books. Not for one moment did I think, Ah, here comes X's new permutation. Rane is his own man (and very much one: I chuckled gleefully at his troubles with faux-Maria's ‘true' sex), not readily likeable, maybe too reserved for my taste–but then who wouldn't be, after living for a century and a half? As I lived with him, through him, my heart sometimes grew old and heavy. Other times, it got wild and freaky. But it never got bored. :D
Enough prattle. You are here for the choice bits, aren't you?
Here they–
Wait, what? Am I less lonely now, you ask?
I ... don't know. Maybe? :)
Now, here they are:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34593#p34593
Поискайте си сборника от Човешката библиотека
Благодаря на редакторката, която е изтръгнала дроба на автора, за да направят истинска магия. (Както ни напомня „Последният еднорог“.) Чел съм по-стари версии на трите истории тук... и те определено не ме стиснаха за сърцето така.
Едноименната повест все още остава най-далече от него (сърцето ми) – може би защото не мога да разбера какво пък толкова ги свързва момата и нейния избран младоженец. Но другите две...
Вижте:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34516#p34516
I read an ARC, kindly provided by the author's agents. The text of the final version may differ.
Peter S. Beagle's latest novel is a tour de force that allayed most of my fears after the shock that was The Way Home. (This will become “all my fears” when I see Beagle's next book. There will be one, yes, Cosmos, friend? :))
I think my reading notes make my case eloquently enough:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34274#p34274
Това е един от двата романа, които наградихме в конкурса „Изгревът на следващото“ през 2022 г.
Въпреки че страда от многословие (например излишните физически описания на герои, които се появяват само в една сцена) и асиметрия на доводите при спорове (лесно се познава на чия страна е авторът – другата говори глупости :D), „14 минути“ съдържа батарея от интересни идеи, някои от които не помня да съм виждал другаде.
Като постройка най-много ми напомни за Earth и „Битие“ на Дейвид Брин с постоянното редуване на множество линии и гледни точки.
Подробните ми впечатления:
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34182#p34182
След... ъъъ, не знам имам ли разрешение да споменавам по-ранните блюда творби на Роча ДеСтефано... „Фенъл“ вдига нивото. (Или аз съм забравил по-ранните таковата. Или летвата ми за хумор се е свлякла. Или е паднало моето ниво...) Хилих се, много се хилих тука. А даже не съм веган... :D
Конкретни впечатления (+ шуробаджанашки включвания от „автора“):
https://choveshkata.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34135#p34135
The first book of the Dream Rider Saga is fast-paced and suspenseful, ranging in tone from funny and heart-warming to blood-curdling. (I should add my blood curdles easily, the way I've been these past several months.) I really enjoyed the interactions between all the young characters–and the others, when they remembered they still carry young spirits inside.
Some of my favorite moments:
~ At one point, Will (the male protagonist) mentions his love of manga.
Well ... his first encounter with Case (the female protag)–plus a canopic jar–is as hilarious as anything a mangaka can come up. It was my first encounter with Douglas Smith's funny bone, and I was genuinely surprised.
~ And here's the actual purpose of superhero costumes:
“I met a superhero. A real superhero. He saves people. He has superpowers. He's brave. And all noble and stuff. And he is so freaking hot.”
“Yeah, he—wait, what?”
“That tight costume? Oh, shit! I mean, right?”
“Uh...”
“It shows his muscle-ly stuff. And his guy bits.”
“Guy bits?”
“And his butt. I mean, wow.”
“His butt? You're wowing his butt?”
She shrugged. “It's wowable.”
The final scene between Fader and Morrigan was a most welcome waft of warmth among the chilling events that surround it.
Thank you for boosting my faith in our hidden humanity.
my
“I met a superhero. A real superhero. He saves people. He has superpowers. He's brave. And all noble and stuff. And he is so freaking hot.”
“Yeah, he—wait, what?”
“That tight costume? Oh, shit! I mean, right?”
“Uh...”
“It shows his muscle-ly stuff. And his guy bits.”
“Guy bits?”
“And his butt. I mean, wow.”
“His butt? You're wowing his butt?”
She shrugged. “It's wowable.”
The final scene between Fader and Morrigan was a most welcome waft of warmth among the chilling events that surround it.
Thank you for boosting my faith in our hidden humanity.
The first book of the Dream Rider Saga is fast-paced and suspenseful, ranging in tone from funny and heart-warming to blood-curdling. (I should add my blood curdles easily, the way I've been these past several months.) I really enjoyed the interactions between all the young characters–and the others, when they remembered they still carry young spirits inside.
Some of my favorite moments:
~ At one point, Will (the male protagonist) mentions his love of manga.
Well ... his first encounter with Case (the female protag)–plus a canopic jar–is as hilarious as anything a mangaka can come up. It was my first encounter with Douglas Smith's funny bone, and I was genuinely surprised.
~ And here's the actual purpose of superhero costumes:
“I met a superhero. A real superhero. He saves people. He has superpowers. He's brave. And all noble and stuff. And he is so freaking hot.”
“Yeah, he—wait, what?”
“That tight costume? Oh, shit! I mean, right?”
“Uh...”
“It shows his muscle-ly stuff. And his guy bits.”
“Guy bits?”
“And his butt. I mean, wow.”
“His butt? You're wowing his butt?”
She shrugged. “It's wowable.”
my
“I met a superhero. A real superhero. He saves people. He has superpowers. He's brave. And all noble and stuff. And he is so freaking hot.”
“Yeah, he—wait, what?”
“That tight costume? Oh, shit! I mean, right?”
“Uh...”
“It shows his muscle-ly stuff. And his guy bits.”
“Guy bits?”
“And his butt. I mean, wow.”
“His butt? You're wowing his butt?”
She shrugged. “It's wowable.”
